Writer/director Jim Mickle is returning to film in a big way after a short stint on the television front and In the Shadow of the Moon, the first project he's directing which he didn't also write, looks like even more of a step-up than Cold in July (review).

The movie re-teams Mickle with Michael C. Hall along with Boyd Holbrook as cops on the beat when three apparently random deaths trun out to be connected. During a chase, the perpetrator, played by Cleopatra Coleman ("Last Man on Earth," Hover (trailer)), dies. Years later, the series of events repeats itself and the dead-woman returns form the dead; sci-fi tropes ensue.

Clearly a much larger production than any of Mickle's other films, In the Shadow of the Moon seems to be just another sci-fi thriller but I love that this time around we have a woman as the apparent time-traveller and Mickle does have a knack for taking on seemingly conventional material which turns out to be unconventional and I'm hopeful the same is true here.